Back by popular demand, Inside Vancouver has relaunched the “Featured Attraction of the Week” series. Each Monday we’ll be featuring a different Vancouver attraction and will be giving away free tickets to our readers. To be eligible, all you have to do is post a comment.

Explore Canada’s oldest continuously operating university botanical garden and immerse yourself in the world of wild-collected plants. UBC Botanical Garden stewards a living and growing repository of wild-collected germplasm representing the plant biodiversity of selected native and international biomes. The total collection of approximately 120,000 accessioned plants represents some 6,000 taxa and includes major international collections of Magnolia, Acer (maples), Sorbus (mountain ash), Styracaceae (storax family) and Rhododendron. Garden highlights include an Asian garden with over 400 kinds of rhododendrons, thousands of alpine and montane plants from around the world, a traditional physic garden full of herbs, and a demonstration food garden.

A family event for all ages, the UBC Apple Festival celebrates one of BC’s favourite fruits. From children learning about the diversity of apples to those who remember tasting heritage apples in their youth, the Apple Festival is a great opportunity to not only discover more about this delicious fruit, but have a whole lot fun doing it!

Every year, around 44,000 lbs (20,000 kilos) of apples are sold to thousands of hungry attendees. More than 70 varieties of heritage, new and “tried and true” varieties are available, grown both conventionally and organically. Also for sale will be many varieties of apple trees grafted onto dwarfing root stock, perfect for the home garden or patio. One of the most popular activities at the Apple Festival is our apple tasting tent, where for a nominal fee, curious event goers can taste up to 60 varieties of new and heritage BC-grown apples.

We have a Yearly Family Membership for UBC Botanical Garden and Nitobe Memorial Garden to give away. All you have to do is post a comment below and we’ll randomly select a winner at noon on Friday, October 12th and notify the winner by email.

Updated Friday, October 12th: Congratulations Johnny! You are the lucky winner of an Annual Family Membership for UBC Botanical Garden and Nitobe Memorial Garden. Please check your inbox for further details on how to go about claiming your prize. Thank you to everyone who posted a comment, and stay tuned for next week’s featured attraction that will be posted on Monday morning.

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Winning tickets would be the perfect excuse to visit the gardens. Hopefully I win!

Jennifer Brule

Monday, 8 Oct 2012 3:38 pm

I live at UBC, I hope I win!

Eva

Monday, 8 Oct 2012 11:30 am

Wow, I didn’t even know you could grow apples in here, but 20,000 kg is crazy! This is worth a visit, hopefully with a free ticket? :)

Karoline

Monday, 8 Oct 2012 11:31 am

Nice place to go for a family friendly afternoon.

Jada

Monday, 8 Oct 2012 3:34 pm

I hope the weather this weekend is nice for the Apple Festival! I haven’t been to UBC in ages.

Robert

Monday, 8 Oct 2012 6:08 pm

I love the UBC Botanical Gardens :)

Jessie

Monday, 8 Oct 2012 8:01 pm

I’d really love to go~

Lena

Monday, 8 Oct 2012 8:14 pm

Nice to place to relax in!

Victoria

Monday, 8 Oct 2012 9:04 pm

looks great, would love to go !!

Nancy

Monday, 8 Oct 2012 9:39 pm

I’ve never been to the Botanical Garden!

Linda

Monday, 8 Oct 2012 11:40 pm

I’d love to take my mum to this garden.

Todd

Tuesday, 9 Oct 2012 1:06 am

UBC here I come!

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Tuesday, 9 Oct 2012 3:07 am

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Sara

Tuesday, 9 Oct 2012 7:31 am

I’m new to Vancouver, this sounds like a great place for an aspiring gardener to visit.

Linda

Tuesday, 9 Oct 2012 8:30 am

This looks like fun

Alfred Shum

Tuesday, 9 Oct 2012 8:54 am

I’ve never been there!

susieh

Tuesday, 9 Oct 2012 9:32 am

The Apple Festival is pretty awesome :)

Lou

Tuesday, 9 Oct 2012 10:46 am

I would some free tickets! I never win anything!

Robyn

Tuesday, 9 Oct 2012 10:46 am

Wow, that’s a lot of apples! Seems so fun!

Albert

Tuesday, 9 Oct 2012 10:49 am

Lived in Vancouver for 10+ years, I think its time for me to take a look in there!

Christie M

Tuesday, 9 Oct 2012 10:55 am

I have never been, would love to win this!

Megan

Tuesday, 9 Oct 2012 10:58 am

me please.

Matt Ward

Tuesday, 9 Oct 2012 11:07 am

Yes please!

Ashley

Tuesday, 9 Oct 2012 11:27 am

Sounds cool!

Carmen

Tuesday, 9 Oct 2012 11:33 am

I’m actually heading to Vancouver with a friend this weekend (we’re from Toronto). And this would be amazing to have.. and a great excuse to return soon if we end up falling in love with Vancouver! :)

Ruth

Tuesday, 9 Oct 2012 11:43 am

I’m hoping to take my daughter to the apple festival this weekend. Fun!

tatiana

Tuesday, 9 Oct 2012 12:02 pm

Haven’t been there for years and would love to go again.

Emily

Tuesday, 9 Oct 2012 12:50 pm

I’ve never been here before! Great to know about it

Renee

Tuesday, 9 Oct 2012 3:55 pm

I’ve never been there, I hope I can win the ticket!!

Michael

Tuesday, 9 Oct 2012 4:55 pm

Ya!

K

Tuesday, 9 Oct 2012 5:10 pm

Pick me!

Andrew

Tuesday, 9 Oct 2012 6:51 pm

What a great spot to enjoy the nice weather we’ve been having.

Eugene

Tuesday, 9 Oct 2012 7:22 pm

I would love to visit!

johnny vanderputten

Tuesday, 9 Oct 2012 9:12 pm

Pumpkins pumpkins pumpkins!

Jenny

Tuesday, 9 Oct 2012 10:48 pm

I LOVE the apple festival, best excuse in the world to eat candy apples till you puke!

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Tuesday, 9 Oct 2012 11:07 pm

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